Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - The White Funnel Fleet - P & A Campbell Limited

	'Cardiff Queen' - my favourite steamer of all time! Also a postcard of her in the company of my most disliked Penarth to Weston 'service'.
	'Ravenswood' - views of her at Cardiff and in the River Avon.

I acquired a book for the Penarth Dock Collection titled Famous Paddle Steamers, [368] written by Mr. F. C. Hambleton and published in 1948 which provides an excellent account of what became one of the White Funnel Fleet, the 'Brighton Queen'. I felt the chapter worthy of inclusion in full.

'Brighton Queen'

One of the finest of all pleasure steamers was the 'Brighton Queen', built in 1897 by the Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Co., and possibly one of the last paddlers of the one-funnel two-masted type. The 'Brighton Queen' was a truly lovely steamer, and like the pretty little 'Cynthia', she too lost her main-mast early in life. She not only lost that, but the colouring of her funnel as well, which had originally been buff with black top, whilst serving her first owners, the Brighton, Worthing & South Coast Steamship Company.